some hints if necessary: timetable, subjects, teachers and students, size of the classroom, campus, school facilities, atmosphere, teaching methods, school rules and principles)

3. Write a summary of the article written by Wei Hua.

4. Read the two articles in Reading on pages 82 and 83 in Workbook and answer the questions below them, so that you can find more about school life in other countries. (They can also do this as their homework.)

5. For the article in Part A, more questions will be asked to test your understanding of some new words. For example: What does the phrase school uniforms mean? What kinds of clothes are fashionable? What clothes are leisure clothes?

6. For the article in Part B, I've got two sentences for you to finish.

　1) When you are taking SATs, you will .

　　A. have to find answers to some math questions only

B. only solve some problems

　 C. be chosen by the best colleges

　　D. be tested on some math questions as well as some problem-solving questions (D)

2) A special counselor is a person .

A. who wants to go to a very good college

B. who works in a high school to help students choose suitable colleges to go to

　　C. who works in a college or a university to help high school students choose suitable

　　　colleges to go to

D. who writes letters of application to colleges for high school students (B)

7. Please do Parts A and B of Listening on page 84 in Workbook, then fill in Part C according to what you've heard on the tape. (or leave as homework)

Answers

Parts A and B (page 92)

I: 1 fifteen 2 English Maths 3 basketball 4 jumping

Dad: 1 letters 2 book 3 computer

Australian students: 1 Maths Science 2 friendly tall

Part C (page 92)

1 English 3 book 5 basketball 7 letters 9 computer

2 Maths 4 jumping 6 tall 8 friendly